What ever happened to good software??? Now its "if its open, its good, closed its bad" I like source cause its more efficient, knowing how its made to learn and maybe help out is great too. A kernel that is working and good is way better than one that is just mono or micro.
I use Linux (RedHat, because it was good as a newbie and isn't bad now that I know my ass from/dev/null, maybe one day when I become a guru I won't like it, but I'm happy for now...), win98 and QNX.
Win98 is out of necessity, most of the ppl I fix boxes for use windows, and I plan to phase it out when I get DSL, by testing all irreplacable apps in wine.
QNX is a microkernel and its great, very stable too, but that cause of the good coding. QNX is older than Linux in fact, it was concieved in '82 as QUNIX and became a released product in 84 with QNX 1.0. It does lack many of the preinstalled apps of Linux and is very poor in the area of having things you are used to in *nix be installed standard, the packaging system is one I actually like as opposed to RPM.
But Linux is a partially monolithic kernel, and is configurable to be otherwise an extent, but still a mono at heart, that still doesn't make it bad, good code beats attributes you think inherently makes something good.
I'm no whiz in CPU, OS, and asm, but QNX seems to a be a decent microkernel, better than mach from the descriptions I hear of from the minix logs and some OSX specs.
http://get.qnx.com
>500mb iso, worth the d/l, will install loopback in windows, the QNX version of loadlin (it doesn't have a name...) _should_ work under dosemu I hear, so go ahead and copy it over after install or use VMware.
MS's _ENTIRE_ tcp/ip stack is from BSD, install Win for Workgroups 3.x and read the tcp/ip related Helps and docs and find out yerself.
I dunno if it still is, I never used the net until the Win95 betas that my mom's friend had installed on her then-new PI 166/80mb box that I'm on right now (no the betas aren't still here, I'm do have winblows 98 tho...).
GPL does a good job of being worthless alone......
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The GNU's GPL does a good job of being worthless with good software under it.
So many people use it b/c it's almost the only choice besides BSD, and if its Linux, then why use the BSD license? You ask whats my answer or am I just bitching and complaining? I'm making my own and reading lots of licenses and really asking myself many moral questions and looking to see the implications of "what if all software followed this license, hypothetically of course, would that be a GOOD thing (aside from the monopolism)???"
Email me if you're actually interested or want to bash me or whatever... It's a four day weekend and these 486 boxes don't usually argue back.....
He made a decent program b/c DVD was not being supported for platforms besides Mac and windoze.
A couple sweet DVD programs (from what I hear, I've no DVD drive or CPU speed for it) have been made poosible from DeCSS'ing.
Any authority circumventing or cracking amounted to no more than the amount of code MS has stolen in the last 25 years. BSD's tcp/ip stack sound familiar? Command syntax of CP/M maybe? The entire UI concept (from Mac or Unix, I wan't around then so I don't honestly know whose idea it was first) but enough getting off the subject. I just haven't got a chance to say this case is BS even though the time for that is past, I never looked into the situation til now...
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Its Gestapo dude, the Nazi secrect police, I'm ensitive to Nazi references, what they did shouldn't be taken in light or be made into catchphrases, I know you meant no harm and I know I'm off topic but thought that was important to say.
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But with DMA turned off. Then it choked on Photon (the GUI) and ran way to slow to stick around and wait for. So deleted the partition w/ GNU parted and stuck it back in the repair room at school.
It'll be like the GPL in that it allows free src code distribution like the GPL does, but it'll have the BSD clause that forbids complete plagarism, it will forbid you to take a program's source covered by my license and make it proprietary, you'd have to make that part open. It will also allow publications and music to be distributed under it and any exerpts of them must recieve your permission and license and must be quoted whole or in part. I know enough about litigation to make it a legally water-holding document and it will be the ZionNet ZNGPL and I'll probably make a ZNLGPL if it goes well.
Originally it was only for my stuff but I think it'll fix alot of the problems of people feeling forced to use the BSD of GPL/LGPL licenses because they think (and until lately) have little other option.
I'd like for the 'past federation' theme of the new show to take place on the Enterprise B, and include the Tasha Yar time thing and put her on there and the dude she left with the First Officer or something (but something tells me he actually was the first officer... only saw that episode once, never caught the rerun, however impossible that was after 3 yrs. of reruns on our local Fox station before Paramount stopped franchising and stuck it all on UPN, speaking of which Seven Days is a pretty good show to.....)
I want a refund, it was a great mag and I loved the CD, it saved me lots of d/l'ing and the articles were informative, they gave me alot of good ideas, but I don't love them enough to let them keep my $20 something bucks...
The GUI needs more keybindings like windows, and a right click drag menu to copy, move, or make shortcuts (symlinks in this case).
I trust command line more cause they tend to be older and are tried and true, there aren't to many different ways to implement a good idea or get something damned right for a change and in most cases someone already did a good job years ago for UNIX.
vi and emacs are great, vi is old and it is very powerful for those who like/need that sort of thing. I never liked Richard Stallman or the GNU, I only use them and there programs cause they're good, most of them are independantly developed and the GNU wanted to stick their name on it to make it look like they had something to do with it. They strike me as the free Microsoft.
But enough politics, older apps are more stable and implement all you really need. The newer GUI stuff is great and I couldn't live without it, I am learning C so I can program and learning to program so I can make things, GTK may factor in one day. I use GIMP for all my graphics needs, I recently discovered how cool Gnumeric spreadsheet is, and am coming to love PostScript, the command line can't do that, but it does do what it does better than any damn thing else!
This is already possible and has been done with Gnome, I read it here on slashdot, but forgot what it was...
The CLI can be used but GUI boxes can be used too, but w/o a window manager and desktop, the idea someone was talking about with a bash box on gmc would be sweet, I use X all the time, but i do admit they need to be merged because I always have a bash terminal open, but I use gmc for everything thats click and drag, so we need to start integrating the two.
Just the command line is giving up the power of a GUI, but totally GUI like that OTHER OS compromises too much functionality...
ever wonder if these PDA carrying SOBs have memory to begin with??? I have a $35 Sharp PIM, I need to write down serial numbers, things to do, and WWW addresses, its cheaper and better than paper, but I still have to remember things....
I have done alot of things to TRY to get linux to crash including taking out memory on a workstation, only thing that did it was playing MP3s, dd'ing 2 bootdisks, and copying a CD made it lock up, but even then I Ctrl+Alt+Backspaced out.
If you actually need to take the CPU or cards out of a server, which I could only dream of why, why would you not have a second server to fall back on? Linux does support removable HDs, I unplug them all the time on desktops even, I never had trouble removing cards and switching... just run Kudzu if its a Redhat system, most people complaining about Linux shortcomings are NT assholes who have Linux servers who can't use it and bitch to us.
Try kicking a tower over on Linux and it won't freeze, move the mouse wrong on a Windoze box and it BSOD's.
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What ever happened to good software??? Now its "if its open, its good, closed its bad" I like source cause its more efficient, knowing how its made to learn and maybe help out is great too. A kernel that is working and good is way better than one that is just mono or micro.
/dev/null, maybe one day when I become a guru I won't like it, but I'm happy for now...), win98 and QNX.
I use Linux (RedHat, because it was good as a newbie and isn't bad now that I know my ass from
Win98 is out of necessity, most of the ppl I fix boxes for use windows, and I plan to phase it out when I get DSL, by testing all irreplacable apps in wine.
QNX is a microkernel and its great, very stable too, but that cause of the good coding. QNX is older than Linux in fact, it was concieved in '82 as QUNIX and became a released product in 84 with QNX 1.0. It does lack many of the preinstalled apps of Linux and is very poor in the area of having things you are used to in *nix be installed standard, the packaging system is one I actually like as opposed to RPM.
But Linux is a partially monolithic kernel, and is configurable to be otherwise an extent, but still a mono at heart, that still doesn't make it bad, good code beats attributes you think inherently makes something good.
http://get.qnx.com >500mb iso, worth the d/l, will install loopback in windows, the QNX version of loadlin (it doesn't have a name...) _should_ work under dosemu I hear, so go ahead and copy it over after install or use VMware.
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MS's _ENTIRE_ tcp/ip stack is from BSD, install Win for Workgroups 3.x and read the tcp/ip related Helps and docs and find out yerself. I dunno if it still is, I never used the net until the Win95 betas that my mom's friend had installed on her then-new PI 166/80mb box that I'm on right now (no the betas aren't still here, I'm do have winblows 98 tho...).
The GNU's GPL does a good job of being worthless with good software under it.
So many people use it b/c it's almost the only choice besides BSD, and if its Linux, then why use the BSD license? You ask whats my answer or am I just bitching and complaining? I'm making my own and reading lots of licenses and really asking myself many moral questions and looking to see the implications of "what if all software followed this license, hypothetically of course, would that be a GOOD thing (aside from the monopolism)???"
Email me if you're actually interested or want to bash me or whatever... It's a four day weekend and these 486 boxes don't usually argue back.....
He made a decent program b/c DVD was not being supported for platforms besides Mac and windoze. A couple sweet DVD programs (from what I hear, I've no DVD drive or CPU speed for it) have been made poosible from DeCSS'ing. Any authority circumventing or cracking amounted to no more than the amount of code MS has stolen in the last 25 years. BSD's tcp/ip stack sound familiar? Command syntax of CP/M maybe? The entire UI concept (from Mac or Unix, I wan't around then so I don't honestly know whose idea it was first) but enough getting off the subject. I just haven't got a chance to say this case is BS even though the time for that is past, I never looked into the situation til now... out SoL
Its Gestapo dude, the Nazi secrect police, I'm ensitive to Nazi references, what they did shouldn't be taken in light or be made into catchphrases, I know you meant no harm and I know I'm off topic but thought that was important to say. out
But with DMA turned off. Then it choked on Photon (the GUI) and ran way to slow to stick around and wait for. So deleted the partition w/ GNU parted and stuck it back in the repair room at school.
It'll be like the GPL in that it allows free src code distribution like the GPL does, but it'll have the BSD clause that forbids complete plagarism, it will forbid you to take a program's source covered by my license and make it proprietary, you'd have to make that part open. It will also allow publications and music to be distributed under it and any exerpts of them must recieve your permission and license and must be quoted whole or in part. I know enough about litigation to make it a legally water-holding document and it will be the ZionNet ZNGPL and I'll probably make a ZNLGPL if it goes well. Originally it was only for my stuff but I think it'll fix alot of the problems of people feeling forced to use the BSD of GPL/LGPL licenses because they think (and until lately) have little other option.
I'd like for the 'past federation' theme of the new show to take place on the Enterprise B, and include the Tasha Yar time thing and put her on there and the dude she left with the First Officer or something (but something tells me he actually was the first officer... only saw that episode once, never caught the rerun, however impossible that was after 3 yrs. of reruns on our local Fox station before Paramount stopped franchising and stuck it all on UPN, speaking of which Seven Days is a pretty good show to.....)
I want a refund, it was a great mag and I loved the CD, it saved me lots of d/l'ing and the articles were informative, they gave me alot of good ideas, but I don't love them enough to let them keep my $20 something bucks...
The GUI needs more keybindings like windows, and a right click drag menu to copy, move, or make shortcuts (symlinks in this case).
I trust command line more cause they tend to be older and are tried and true, there aren't to many different ways to implement a good idea or get something damned right for a change and in most cases someone already did a good job years ago for UNIX.
vi and emacs are great, vi is old and it is very powerful for those who like/need that sort of thing. I never liked Richard Stallman or the GNU, I only use them and there programs cause they're good, most of them are independantly developed and the GNU wanted to stick their name on it to make it look like they had something to do with it. They strike me as the free Microsoft.
But enough politics, older apps are more stable and implement all you really need. The newer GUI stuff is great and I couldn't live without it, I am learning C so I can program and learning to program so I can make things, GTK may factor in one day. I use GIMP for all my graphics needs, I recently discovered how cool Gnumeric spreadsheet is, and am coming to love PostScript, the command line can't do that, but it does do what it does better than any damn thing else!
This is already possible and has been done with Gnome, I read it here on slashdot, but forgot what it was... The CLI can be used but GUI boxes can be used too, but w/o a window manager and desktop, the idea someone was talking about with a bash box on gmc would be sweet, I use X all the time, but i do admit they need to be merged because I always have a bash terminal open, but I use gmc for everything thats click and drag, so we need to start integrating the two. Just the command line is giving up the power of a GUI, but totally GUI like that OTHER OS compromises too much functionality...
ever wonder if these PDA carrying SOBs have memory to begin with??? I have a $35 Sharp PIM, I need to write down serial numbers, things to do, and WWW addresses, its cheaper and better than paper, but I still have to remember things....
I have done alot of things to TRY to get linux to crash including taking out memory on a workstation, only thing that did it was playing MP3s, dd'ing 2 bootdisks, and copying a CD made it lock up, but even then I Ctrl+Alt+Backspaced out.
If you actually need to take the CPU or cards out of a server, which I could only dream of why, why would you not have a second server to fall back on? Linux does support removable HDs, I unplug them all the time on desktops even, I never had trouble removing cards and switching... just run Kudzu if its a Redhat system, most people complaining about Linux shortcomings are NT assholes who have Linux servers who can't use it and bitch to us.
Try kicking a tower over on Linux and it won't freeze, move the mouse wrong on a Windoze box and it BSOD's.